''Glaucopsyche lycormas'' is a
butterfly
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...
of the family
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family (biology), family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of ...
. It is found in the East
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
Th ...
in Siberia, Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan.
Subspecies
* ''Glaucopsyche lycormas lycormas'' (South Siberia (east of Ob), Russian Far East, Sakhalin, Mongolia, Northeast China, Korea, Japan)
* ''Glaucopsyche lycormas lederi''
O. Bang-Haas, 1907 (South Siberia, Kuznetsky Alatau, Salair, North Altai, East Sayan, Transbaikalia, Mongolia)
* ''Glaucopsyche lycormas scylla''
(Oberthür, 1880) (Amur, Ussuri)
* ''Glaucopsyche lycormas tomariana''
(Matsumura, 1928) (Kunashir, Kuriles)
References
Funet
lycormas
Butterflies described in 1866
Butterflies of Asia
Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler
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